Matthew Pillsbury: City Stages

Overview

Jackson Fine Arr is proud to kick off the 2012 fall season as part of the Atlanta art community by highllighting two sensational artists from New York: Todd Selby and Matthew Pillsbury.

In City Stages, Matthew Pillsbury uses a large format camera with long exposures, often over and hour or more, to document the way people inhabit the public spaces of New York City, Pillsbury says, “I think of these as places that are awaiting the drama of our lives to come and filled them. There’s a dialogue that happens between the way we use these spaces and the spaces themselves.”

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Artist

Matthew Pillsbury

Matthew Pillsbury Biography

French-American photographer Matthew Pillsbury (1973-present) specializes in taking photos with long exposure times, using only available light. Most of Matthew Pillsbury’s photography focuses on city life, the passage of time and the relationship between both the disconnect and unification modern technology summons. His most well-known series is titled Screen Lives, and focuses on how people interact (and are absorbed by) the screens that dominate their lives. The long-exposure photographs in Screen Lives primarily feature people watching television, using their computer, and staring into mobile devices. “With computers and cellphones the question became ‘What’s representative of your use...